Intelligent Interfaces to Empower People with Disabilities

Betke, Margrit

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_15

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“…This user had participated in experiments with the initial version of Camera Canvas [8]. In the prior experiments, the user was excited about the prospect of manipulating images but was unable to use the majority of the features [1]. In our test procedure, we first explained the general purpose of the program to him.…”

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“…There have been various other kinds of applications specially designed for use with Camera Mouse [1]. In particular, software has been developed to enable people with motor impairments to create drawings: Eagle Paint [1] is a program designed for use with the Camera Mouse that allows users to draw freeform lines, EyeDraw [7] is a drawing program designed for use with an infrared eye tracker, and VoiceDraw [6] is a drawing program that allows users to draw freeform lines by making different sounds with their voices.…”

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“…In particular, software has been developed to enable people with motor impairments to create drawings: Eagle Paint [1] is a program designed for use with the Camera Mouse that allows users to draw freeform lines, EyeDraw [7] is a drawing program designed for use with an infrared eye tracker, and VoiceDraw [6] is a drawing program that allows users to draw freeform lines by making different sounds with their voices. There has also been work to create customizable [9] and automatically generated [4] user interfaces for people with motor impairments.…”

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Camera Canvas: Image Editing Software for People with Disabilities

Kwan

Betke

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Camera Canvas: Image Editing Software for People with Disabilities

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Betke

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Worldwide, millions of individuals are affected by disorders or injuries that cause severe motion impairments [1].…”

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Adaptive sliding menubars make existing software more accessible to people with severe motion impairments

Kwan

Paquette

Magee

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Univ Access Inf Soc

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The graphical user interfaces of popular software are often inaccessible to people with severe motion impairments, who cannot use the traditional keyboard and mouse, and require an alternative input device. Reaching for buttons and selecting menu items, in particular, can be difficult for nonverbal individuals with quadriplegia, who control the mousepointer with head motion via a mouse-replacement system. This paper proposes interaction techniques that can be used with mouse-replacement systems and enable the creation of accessible graphical user interfaces. To illustrate these techniques, the paper presents an image editing application, named Camera Canvas, that uses a sliding toolbar as its universal menu controller. The parameters of the toolbar automatically adapt to the movement abilities of the specific user. Individuals with and without disabilities and of a variety of ages were observed using Camera Canvas. It was found that the developed techniques worked across many different movement abilities and experience levels. Then, it was investigated how such techniques could be used to ''retrofit'' existing Windows applications with new graphical user interfaces. A tool called Menu Controller was created that can automatically re-render the menus of some existing applications into adaptive sliding toolbars. Menu Controller enables users of mouse-replacement systems to select menu entries that were otherwise inaccessible to them.

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“…Among individuals with these severe impairments, the Camera Mouse has been established as an assistive communication tool in recent years [4]. Individuals, who can control their head movement, even if the movement range is very small, use systems such as the Camera Mouse as a mouse-replacement interface.…”

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